Reddit reviews Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community

Get this book for them, and read it yourself too. It was written by a Christian woman who went from being homophobic to accepting of LGBT people.

Intersex is key. When I read the chapter "The Myth of a Pink and Blue World" in Kathy Baldock's Walking the Bridgeless Canyon it cracked open a door in my brain that I didn't realize had been welded shut. God did not make them male and female; God made them male, female and thirty-one variations on what we call intersex.

Here's another good resource. Happy reading, all.

I don't think those exist, but if you just look at the leadership of the various ex-gay organizations over time, there are many ex-ex-gays. Some signed this letter, for instance. Quite a few are described in Walking the Bridgeless Canyon, each describing a weirdly dishonest world where everybody was supposed to tell outsiders that they were "cured" while knowing full well that they were all only "cured" in the sense "not currently having same-sex intercourse - well, not very often, at least, and not in any sort of long-term relationship, and I repent each time afterward"

I obviously know the Bible well, and while I am a Christian, meaning that I follow the teachings of Christ as best I can, and that I believe Jesus is my savior, I also understand that neither I or other Christians actually follow the Bible verbatim. Every Christian picks and chooses what they follow from the Bible. Certain denominations believe that certain parts of the law in the Bible have merit, while other parts of the law have been superseded by Christ and grace. Usually, Christians who go around pointing their finger in other people’s faces, saying that other folks are sinners (especially LGBTQ people these days— very popular according to evangelical right wing culture to condemn these folks and blame them for all manner of problems)— these Christians are often not reading the Bible for themselves or discerning for themselves what is true and how to best follow Christ. Rather they are following the whims of their own conservative and narrow minded culture, which is usually formed by the limitations of their own church leadership. Nowhere in the Bible does my savior judge or point out gay or gender non-conforming people as sinners. In fact, he blesses eunuchs and doesn’t ask that they change who they are.

I strongly recommend that you read Kathy Baldock’s Walking the Bridgeless Canyon, before you pretend like you know anything about the topic. Before your arrogance inspires you to continue in your prejudices, which is very unlike Christ. And Christ is my standard bearer for how I should best follow God’s plan for my life.

Here is a link to the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Bridgeless-Canyon-Repairing-Community/dp/1619200287#nav-search-keywords